In message <20040211164137.GE14109@netmeister.org>, Jan Schaumann writes:
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>Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
>> I'm contemplating buying a new Dell 4600 desktop, to run under=20
>> -current.  One option is a 120G Serial ATA disk -- is this supported?
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>We're currently using Western Digital ``Raptor'' SATA drives, which work
>just fine.  However, and I ment to bring that up before, boot time has
>significantly increased since we use SATA.  It sits there apparently
>probing the pciide's for approximately 60 seconds...
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Hmm...  Of course, I don't know just controller they're using; that 
sort of detail doesn't seem to be on the Dell web site.  For that 
matter, I don't know what type of GigE card they have, nor what "Intel 
Extreme Graphics controller" is and whether or not it's supported by 
XFree86.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb